Keith Walker volunteered with a local glass-blower for eight years before making the leap from hobbyist to professional. Another seven years of shaping 1,200 C pieces of molten lava into colourful houseware and intricate sculptures and he’s still in pursuit of mastery over this elusive material.

“You could spend a lifetime working with glass and not even get close,” Walker says. “That’s the allure — it’s the unmasterable medium.”